1958
Marcos Lopez was born in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina.

1976
He studied at the National Tecnological University (Santa Fe) where he studied engineering for several years and began selftaught, to learn photography.

1982
He moved to Buenos Aires, where he continued his training. He became actively involved in group activities with colleagues and artists from other disciplines.

1984
He partecipated to the creation of the group Núcleo de Autores Fotográficos, with other 12 artists (Pintor, Grossman, Perez Aznar, E.Gil...).

1986
He was a member of the first group of foreign grantees at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, where he studied for a year and a half.

1989
He studied for one year at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba, where he produced some shortmovies in 16mm.
He kept working in Buenos Aires as a movie director and photographic reporter.

1993
He won the First Prize of the Andy Goldstein Foundation, with a grant to finish his portraits in black and white and the publication of a book. Marcos Lopez-fotografias (Buenos Aires, La Azotea, 1993) He had 'Retratos', his first book, published.
At that point he began this series in color.


2000
La Marca edition published 'Poplatino', in Buenos Aires.

2001
He organized with Valeria Gonzalez the Exposition 'Al Sur del Sur' with eight Argentinian photographers. Between 2001 and 2002, he created his own group of photographic production with important teachers like Humberto Rivas, Pedro Meyer, Daniel Barraco, Tatiana Parcero.


2002 He is invited at MEIAC, Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, to photograph the Badajoz Carnival, with other Spanish photographers.(Alberto García Alix, Ricard Terre, etc) for the permanent collection of MEIAC.

2003
'Sub-realismo Criollo' is Publisher by the University of Salamanca. He is invited to the Encuentros Colombianos de Fotografía, in Medellín.

2004
He is invited to the 'Foro de Fotografía Latinoamericana' in México DF, organized from the Centro de la Imagen..

At present he lives in Buenos Aires, working as a photographer and director of independent videos. He has been involved in painting and photo-journalism as well as art and photographic direction for television commercials.

Solo exhibitions 2006
'Tinta Roja' Fernando Pradilla gallery - Madrid - Spain.
'Laurits & Lopez' Tallinn Art Hall's gallery - Tallin - Estonia.
'Subrealismo Criollo' - Sala Puertas de Castilla - Fotoencuentros 06 - Murcia - Spain.


2005 Galería Ruth Benzacar. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
'Artista Invitado Extranjero'. FIA - Iberoamericana Art Exposition-. Caracas, Venezuela.
'Al sur del realismo'. White Box gallery. New York, U.S.A.
Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, Finland.

2004
KBK gallery. México DF.
'Poplatino'. Sanomatalo. Helsinski, Finlandia
'Sub-realismo Criollo'. El Ojo Ajeno gallery, Photographic center, Lima, Perú.
Sala Rivadavia. Cádiz, Spain.
Instituto Cervantes. Berlín, Germany.
'La Salsa'. Collaboration with Raúl Recio. Museum of Modern Art of Domenican Republic.
Festival 'Transition (s)'. La Feuille de Route. Biarritz, France.

2003
'Sub-realismo Criollo'. Colored photographs 1993-2003. Fernando Pradilla gallery. Madrid, Spain.
ARCO expo. Fernando Pradilla gallery. Madrid, Spain.
'Transphotographiques'. Lille, France.


2002
Espace Cedille. Paris, France.
Chateau D'eau gallery. Toulouse, France.
'Backlight 02'. Tampere, Finland.

2001
ARCO expo. Arte x Arte gallery. (Argentine)
Emilio A. Caraffa Museum. Córdoba, Argentine.


1997
Museum of Fine Arts. Caracas, Venezuela
Banco Patricios fondation. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Rojas 'Doble Discurso' Center. Buenos Aires, Argentine.


1988
Fototeca de Cuba. La Habana, Cuba.

1986
Teatro San Martín photogallery. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Agathe Gaillard gallery. Paris, France.


Group exhibitions (selection)

2005
'Barrocos y Neo Barrocos' (El infierno de lo Bello) Domus Artium 2002 - Salamanca - Spain.

2004
'Mapas abiertos. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002' Moving exibition. Palau de La Virreina (Barcelona) y Fundación Telefónica (Madrid). Spain.
'Fotografía Argentina'. Museo de la Fotografía. Charleroi, Belgium.
'Argentina, Visiones de un mito'. Maison de la Radio. Paris, France.
Festival 'No Tango -Buenos Aires-Berlín-'. Villa Elizabeth, Berlín, Germany.

2003
'Calcio di Rigore'. Santa Croce Palace. Rome, Italy.
Eye-see Gallery. Aalst, Belgium.


2002
Noorderlitch Festival. Holland.

2001
'Políticas de la Diferencia-Arte iberoamericano de Fin de siglo'. Moving exibition. MALBA. Buenos Aires, Argentine.

1999
'Mitos, Sueños y Realidades de la Fotografía Argentina'. International Center of Photography. New York, U.S.A..
'Sangre Caliente'. PhE99, Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid, Spain.

1997
'Otro Mirar-Arte Argentino Contemporáneo'. Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (Barcelona, Spain) and Nacional Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires, Argentine).

1994
'Romper los márgenes'. Museo Alejandro Otero. Caracas, Venezuela.

Prizes

2004
Special Prize - Premio 'Chandon'. Museo Caraffa. Córdoba, Argentine.
First Prize 'Villa de Madrid'. Sub-realismo Criollo exposition,
Pradilla gallery. Madrid, Spain.


2003
First Prize Bienal Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Bahía Blanca, Argentine.

2000
Photographer of the year, prize of the Asociación de Críticos de Arte. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
First Prize adquisición Fundación Federico Klemm. Buenos Aires, Argentina


1997
First Prize adquisición 'Josune Dorronsoro'. Caracas, Venezuela.
First Prize, Beca a la creación, Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Argentine.

1992
First Prize Beca-Fotografía, Museum of Modern Art. Buenos Aires, Argentine.

Collections

Daros-Latinamerica Collection. Zurich, Swiss.
National Museum of Modern Art. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS). Madrid, Spain.
Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Spain.
Museo del Barrio. New York, U.S.A.
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
National Museum of Fine Arts. Caracas, Venezuela.
Museum of Modern Art. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Museo Caraffa. Córdoba, Argentine.
Museo Castagnico - MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art. Rosario, Argentine.
Museum of Modern Art. Bahía Blanca, Argentine.
Casa de las Ameritas. La Habana, Cuba.
Antorchas Foundation. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Federico Klemm Foundation. Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Junta de Andalucía. Sports and Turism secretary. Andalucía, Spain.

Last Publications:

100 artistas latinoamericanos - Exit edition - Madrid - 2007
Revista Exit 'Remakes' # 21 - Madrid - 2006
Revista Arte al Día Internacional - # 117 - Miami - 2006
C Magazine - Ivory press - London - 2006
100 fotógrafos - 10 curadores - Phaidon - London - 2004